On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Charles Lepple wrote: [snip]
> I wouldn't be so concerned about the drill program (after all, it works > fine in gerbv) but Lavenier's (sp?) ViewMate program misaligns the drill > and Gerber files, and so does freedfm.com (4pcb.com's online > design-for-manufacturability checker). Hmm, well, I make no guarantees that gerbv does the right thing here, this could be a case of having origins that aren't at (0,0). Seems to (and bloody well should) work, but it's not quite as tested as I would like it to be. Could you send me the files so I can verify this? Just any gerber/drill files made from pcb will do, really. I have to put in a fix for yet another broken version of Orcad sometime soon, so I might as well look into this at the same time... BTW, I usually use GerbTool as a reference, there's an evaluation version available at http://www.gerbtool.com/download.htm Not sure how crippled that is, but it could be worth a try. > I'm not sure what I need, really. If anyone has a favorite PCB fab that > can handle pcb's Gerber and drill files right off the bat, I'll consider > it. Or, pointers to Excellon drill-to-drawing (PostScript, or whatever) > code would be cool. I will probably have to write some code to get out > of this mess, but if someone else has a good starting point, I'm all ears. For cheap boards, there's always Olimex: http://run.to/pcb Limited to two layer boards with fairly large tracks, though. As for NC drill to drill-drawing, I guess it shouldn't be _that_ hard to hack something together. Do you have a wishlist of what you would like it to do, more exactly? A special drill drawing mode for gerbv wouldn't be very hard to do, for instance, but since it does not yet have postcript output that might not be acceptable(?). /Andreas
